Follow live updates from SunSport's MMA reporter Simon Head at Octagonside at Madison Square Garden in New York as Conor McGregor bids to make history by becoming the first simultaneous two-weight UFC world champion

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By Simon Head at Madison Square Garden

12th November 2016, 11:51 pm

Updated: 13th November 2016, 2:46 am

CONOR McGregor has the chance to join the list of fighting great here in New York tonight.

McGregor takes on UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez for the UFC lightweight title in the UFC's first event to be staged at the iconic Madison Square garden.

Conor McGregor just did a demolition job on Eddie Alvarez, who quite simply wasn’t even close to the Irishman’s class. McGregor dropped the lightweight champ FIVE TIMES in all, with the fifth proving the decisive moment as referee John McCarthy jumped in to call it off. Conor McGregor is now a two-weight world champion. Amazing scenes here in Madison Square Garden

The Dubliner has come flying out of the traps here at The Garden, dropping the lightweight world champ THREE times inside the opening five minutes. Eddie Alvarez loves going toe to toe and brawling. Well, he’s going to have to do that now knowing he can be decked at any point by McGregor’s ‘Celtic Cross’, that lightning left hand.

It took McGregor a New York Minute to make his mark on the champion, dropping him with his honey punch, the straight left. Alvarez recovered well, and is back up and firing back. Conor’s power is having an effect early here.